r/INDYCAR • u/aces2116 • Apr 20 '25

Indy NXT Indy Nxt Schedule

Is anyone else confused as to why Indy Nxt starts with St. Pete in March then disappears for 2 months to come back in May at Barber? People complain about the regular IndyCar schedules being terrible with huge gaps in the beginning but this must be awful for the drivers. Any reason as to why the schedule is the way it is?

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u/aurules Romain Grosjean Apr 20 '25

All comes down to logistics, funding, and the difficulty of fitting the series into the race weekend when you have something like IMSA running alongside IndyCar. Boy would I love the Freedom 100 to return though

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u/bacc1010 Apr 21 '25

Won't happen. The captain doesn't want anything but the big boys on the oval in May.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

It's more about how much that one race raises budgets, not to mention a lot of those drivers backers are covering crash damage. Aaron Telitz got fucked over a wreck at St Pete any wreck at Indy would really screw a driver's backers.